Merck To Buy Biotech Co. Millipore For $7.2B

By Erin Marie Daly · March 1, 2010, 2:41 PM EST

Merck KGaA has agreed to acquire biotechnology company Millipore Corp. for $7.2 billion, a move the German pharmaceutical giant says will bolster its laboratory equipment business....

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